Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:15:32 +0200 From: "Henriett Griecs" To: ... Subject: invitation to public lecture Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES Presents a Public Lecture by David Weberman Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia "Is Substantive Philosophy of History a Legitimate Enterprise?" This paper revisits a distinction made by philosophers in the mid-20th century between analytic and substantive philosophy of history. While the former deals with the writing of history, the substantive enterprise concerns history itself, its larger trends and patterns. Many philosophers argued that substantive philosophy of history was speculative and therefore illegitimate at worst or unphilosophical at best. More recently, post-modernists have argued that historical meta-narratives are or should be a thing of the past. The lecturer argues against both judgments first by questioning underlying presuppositions about the nature of philosophy and second by disambiguating the notion of a meta-narrative. Citing examples such as Heidegger, the Frankfurt School and Fukuyama, he suggests a number of substantive historical questions that deserve philosophical attention. 3:00 p.m., Friday, July 2, 2004 Popper Room David Weberman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He earned degrees at University of Munich, Germany and Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia, New York University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. He held a fellowship at Harvard Law School. He has published a book, Historische Objektivitaet, as well as numerous articles on 20th century European philosophy and other topics. He is currently working on a theory of interpretation. For more information please contact Henriett Griecs at 327 3034 or griecsk@ceu.hu